Security News > 2020 > August > Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Application Guard for Office
Microsoft informed administrators on Monday that Application Guard for Office, a feature designed to protect users against malicious documents, is now available in public preview.
Application Guard for Office has been available in private preview.
Application Guard for Office prevents untrusted files from accessing trusted resources by running potentially unsafe Office files in a secure container isolated through hardware-based virtualization.
"When Office opens files in Application Guard, users can securely read, edit, print, and save those files without having to re-open files outside the container," explained Eric Wayne, a senior Office deployment engineer at Microsoft.
Microsoft has provided detailed instructions for enabling Application Guard for Office.
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